Missile Defense Fraud Goes Ballistic: Needless, Unworkable, Gold-Plated, Dangerous, & Corrupt

It should be a matter of federal criminal investigation that between $100 and $400 billion has been lavished on weapons contractors for antiballistic missile schemes without producing a working program. Murphy, in The Hill, pointed to the self-defeating aspect of even continuing the program. “The very act of pursuing a missile defense system is already encouraging U.S. adversaries to expand their nuclear arsenals and develop additional technologies to circumvent missile defenses. So, counterintuitively, missile defense is making the world less safe.”

Continued funding of the needless, unworkable, gold-plated, and corrupt missile defense program amounts to larceny and theft. Rather than debating whether or not to give additional billions to the usual suspects, the Department of Justice should be assembling a grand jury. ___